3rd grade - December - Hide the Word - Ephesians 4:26-27

Ephesians 4:26-27 – In your anger do not sin.  Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold.

Here's the one pager for this verse. You can see the sun worksheet here. Also, that link has a stop sign worksheet and a worksheet entitled, "When I am angry, I will ____." The worksheet homework about anger is here. The craft, with black construction paper and glow in the dark paint, is explained here. The instructions for making a magnet are here.

Enjoy!

3rd grade - November - Hide the Word - Ephesians 4:25

Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one body. Ephesians 4:25


This is the one pager for Ephesians 4:25. This lists some possible ideas for this verse. In this document, you will find the homework about lying. You will also find a sort activity and a class generated list and sort.

Enjoy this!

3rd Grade - October - Hide the Word - Ephesians 4:23-24

to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. Ephesians 4:23-24



The one pager, here, gives a list of possible activities for this particular verse.

Find the butterfly stained glass sample and instructions here. Find the butterfly sort to mail home for the kids here. Butterfly foot print sample and instructions are here.

This link, here, has some further worksheets available for class. The second and third pages have vocabulary cards for righteousness and holy. The children can decorate the cards or add them to a vocabulary folder you create in class. There is a homework coupon for each child to fill out and return to class for a special prize. The page with the bubble "New" on it is for children to write the verse around it. The next page is a sample of the worksheet. Finally, the last worksheet is a fill in the blank worksheet. Each child comes up with a verb they will do instead of sin, since they are to put on the new self, to be righteous and holy. They will draw themselves doing this instead of sinning.

3rd Grade - May - Hide the Word - Galatians 1:10

"Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ." Galatians 1:10


Here's the one pager for Galatians 1:10 - the list of all ideas for this verse.

This file contains the worksheets for this verse. A description of the worksheets and what to do with each one is found in the one pager above. Also, the first page of this file includes a class lesson on this verse section. The applicable section is starred.

2 year old - Psalm 139:13-14 - November - Hide the Word

God made me. Psalm 139:13-14

This is the one pager for this verse.

Attached to the one pager, you will find a worksheeet entitled God made me. Click here for an example of what it looks like completed.

3rd Grade - August - Hide the Word - Ephesians 2:10

"For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." Ephesians 2:10

Here is the one pager that outlines possible activities for this verse for the class.

This link has worksheets for Ephesians 2:10. The first page is a mini viewer for the children to create. This worksheet has instructions attached to make in class. The second page is shapes to be made into a mobile, put in order, or decorated. The third page is a definition sheet for grace for the children to decorate with glitters, stickers, or other doo-dahs.

2 year old - Hide the Word - Monthly letter

This is a letter for the 2 year old class. Each month the teachers send this letter out to every child filling in the middle section. Sign the letter and drop this in the mail. The little ones will be so excited to get their letter each month, and the parents can work with the child at home to help reinforce the learning that occurs in the class.

Monthly letter for 2 year olds

2 year old - Hide the Word - Songs

Attached are the lyrics and the piggyback songs for the two year old class. Enjoy!  These songs can get stuck in your head pretty easily. Pretty soon you'll be singing them and hiding the Word in your heart, too!!

2 year old songs

2 year old - August - Hide the Word - God Loves me

God loves me.

This is the 2 year old phrase for August. Attached is the one pager for this month.

One Pager

See the link here for the picture sample.

The Edible Ten Plagues

This is one our all-time favorite lessons!!!  I wish I could give credit to the creator of it, but I heard about it from Janell who heard about it from Susie, heard about it from...  Even though it is SUPER fun (and a little gross!) we still want the kids to know that the reason we are doing it is to learn that...

 Before and after eating each plague, we say the red poster together.  I also made the ten plague numbers.  They were in the workroom, so again, I cannot give proper credit.  I taped them to a huge baking sheet.  We give each child a plate, napkin and water bottle.  We encourage them to try eating each plague, but do not force anyone to eat anything.

 I forgot to take a photo of plague one... the Nile turning to blood.  For this plague, we bought sardines in tomato sauce.  The tomato sauce looks like bloody water and the sardine represents all the dead fish. Surprisingly, half of our kids tried them and liked them!

Here is plague two... gummy frogs!  We searched high and low to find these fellows and had to go to a Spec's to get them...

 Here are our gnats... they are really mustard seeds!

 Here are our flies... chocolate chips!

 Plague five... all the livestock died.  To make them, we used half a hot dog weiner and stuck 4 pretzel sticks in each weiner.

 Boils!!! This one is a little gross... a Ritz cracker, with a dollop of Cheez Whiz and a pepperoni on top!  The odd looking one is a wadded up Fruit Roll-up to accomodate a child with a food allergy.

 Plague 7... lightning and hail.  For the HOT lightning, we ate Hot Tamale candies...

 and the hail is ice cubes.

 Plague 8 was weird to make! hahaha  These are rice krispie treats that I made.  Once the marshmallows were melted and just before I added the cereal, I added a few drops of black food coloring and stirred it in well.  Then I added the cereal and pressed it into the pan like normal.  I tried to cut them into skinny strips.  It would have been cute to add black licorice legs... but it just did not happen this time.

 Plague nine... total darkness!  This year we used an Oreo cookie for the base.  Then I put 2 small dollops of icing on top of the cookie and added candy eyes.  I bought the candy eyes at Hobby Lobby in the cake decorating section.  Some years we have also baked a batch of brownies and used white chocolate chips for the eyes.

 The last plague... death of the first born.  The plate below was what we gave to each child... french fries in the shape of a doorpost and a dollop of ketchup at the bottom.

As we talked about the plague, the kids used one fry to "paint" the doorpost to keep away the angel of death.

 This was a HUGE learning experience for our kids!  They had a LOT of fun and learned even more!